b i o g r a p h y

I s o b i is the solo musical project of Isobel Blank, polyhedric artist and performer of the contemporary scene.From 1997 to 2008 she was the leader of Vestfalia - art rock indie in the first years, electroacoustic trip hop in the following duo set (Isobel Arto) - band with which she performed in many festivals and live venues in Italy, sharing stages with national and international artists (Meg, Prozac+, Edoardo Bennato, Dresden Dolls etc.). In 2008 Rockit after a 'first choice' evaluation of 'Tracks' (the last of 5 albums, 2005) inserted them in 'L'ambiente e gli Ultrasuoni' compilation. In 2009 they took part to 'Il Paese è Iperreale' compilation (Subterra Label, Radio Riserva Indiana).After a tour of dancing-music-videoart with the great musician and producer Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, Marianne Faithfull, Florence & The Machine etc.) - www.leoabrahams.com - in 2009, in which he also arranged some of Isobi's songs, she gave birth to 'Not a child neither a dog, maybe a flower' (EP selfproduction, 2010), a short diagonal work in which she mixed the ispirations she had from her friends of the piedmontese Canalese Noise Records, together with her native style. The rhythm is the one of her own bones, the noise of her ankles recorded by the danish sound wizard Jacob Kirkegaard (www.fonik.dk). In this album you could meet an anglophone voice that sometimes discovers the puzzled italian poets language. On the background a winter evening, a wool room, nothing much more.Talking about the genre of her music, minimal and compulsive, skew math, soft or runaway, someone called it Storm.